A Championship Year for Lsus Athletics
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A CHAMPIONSHIP YEAR FOR LSUS ATHLETICS The calendar year of 2018 so far winner receiving an automatic bid has been one full of champion- to the NAIA National Tournament ships for the Pilots! They have which would be a first for the won four regular season titles with LSUS men. men’s basketball winning their Women’s soccer finished in sec- 6th, baseball won their fifth while ond place in the conference and women’s basketball and men’s received the second seed in the soccer each won their first. RRAC Raising Cane’s Women’s The women’s basketball team won Soccer Tournament, also sched- the 2018 Raising Cane’s Red Riv- uled for Texarkana. er Athletic Conference Tourna- What a year it already has been for ment for the second time. LSUS athletics and what potential Thus far, baseball and women’s it has to receive even more recog- basketball have each made appear- nition as the soccer post season ances in national tournaments with unfolds. One thing is for sure: men’s basketball reaching the Fab LSUS Athletics is thriving and Four for the second time in pro- will only get better from here! gram history. Keep it up Pilots! Men’s soccer has earned the #1 seed in the RRAC Raising Cane’s Men’s Soccer Tournament to be held in Texarkana with the tourney Women Win Again, Beat TAMUT Blanco (SR/Guernsey, England); and Savannah Guigneaux The LSUS women posted another W on October 11 with a 3 (SR/Kaufman, TX). -0 victory over Texas A&M University-Texarkana, the Pilots’ third consecutive shut-out win, running their season The Pilots bombed the Quinn goal, taking an amazing 41 Stephen F. Austin L, 1-0 record to 6-4-2 and their RRAC slate to 4-0-2 while the shots with 25 of them on-frame. ‘Keeper Karolyn Hasler AT E Eagles fell to 2-10 and 2-4. The Pilots are now in a tie for (SO/Chandler, AZ) had a relatively easy time of it as the AUG 22 Tigers took just three shots, two on-goal, giving Hasler Eastfield College third place in the conference, one game behind Our Lady of 6:00 the Lake University. another shut-out win. AT S Carolina Martins-Gomes (FR/Governador Valdares, Brazil) Women Nip Southwest for 6th Straight Lyon College Scots W, 5-2 gave the Pilots the early lead with a goal at the 6:43 mark on The Pilots stayed hot for their sixth consecutive win as they an assist by Louise Duffy (JR/South Godstone, England). got by the University of the Southwest by a 2-1 score at AUG 26 Martins-Gomes scored for the 10th time this season while Bossier High School on October 20. The win pushed the Texas Southern Bobcats 1:00 taking six shots in the contest. The score stayed at 1-0 Pilots to a record of 9-4-2 overall and 7-0-2 in the RRAC S through the remainder of the first period before Katie-Jayde while the Mustangs dropped to 7-7 and 4-5. Cunningham (SR/Stonewall) put one in the net near the Science and Arts Drovers L, 2-0 beginning of the second half at 45:53 with Natalie Blanco With all of the scoring coming in the first half, Brittany (SR/Guernsey, England) assisting. Blanco closed out the Scott (FR/Shreveport) got LSUS on the board first at 9:40. scoring with a goal at 69:51 as GK Karolyn Hasler (SO/ After a tying score from USW at 16:52, Katie-Jayde Cun- Grambling State Tigers L, 1-0 Chandler, AZ) kept TAMUT off the board for her fifth shut- ningham (SR/Stonewall) scored what would be the match- AT out of the season. winner at 33.52. Both goals came on assists from Carolina Martins-Gomes (FR/Governador Valdares, Brazil). The Benedictine Ravens L, 3-1 “We played good soccer today,” commented Coach Ashley Pilots out-shot the Mustangs 25-9 with 12 on-frame for AT Holland. “Now we just have to stay healthy from here on LSUS as Karolyn Hasler (SO/Chandler, AZ) made saves on out.” 6 of 7 USW shots on-goal. William Jewell Cardinals L, 2-1 AT Hasler Named RRAC Defensive POW Pilots Squeak by Wiley, Remain W, 3-0 Karolyn Hasler, the Pilots’ sophomore goalkeeper from Texas Wesleyan Rams Undefeated in RRAC Chandler, AZ, was named the Red River Athletic Confer- ence Women’s Defensive Player of the Week for October The LSUS and Wiley College women battled through a LSU Alexandria Generals T, 0-0 (2OT) scoreless 89 minutes with all indications being that their 15-21. October 13 contest would head for overtime in a 0-0 tie. The Pilots were 2-0 for the week with Hasler’s shut-out of The Pilot’s Katie-Jayde Cunningham (SR/Stonewall) had Paul Quinn College (13-0) and a 2-1 win over the Universi- Houston-Victoria Jaguars W, 2-1 (OT) other ideas as she drilled a goal—her 13th of the campaign-- ty of the Southwest in which Karolyn made six saves. She AT on an assist from Carolina Martins-Gomes (FR/Governador leads the RRAC with a goals-against average of 0.84 and is Valdares, Brazil) with just 53 seconds remaining in regula- fourth in saves with 100. St. Thomas Celts T, 1-1 (OT) tion to eke out a 1-0 victory. With the win, the Pilots im- AT proved to 7-4-2 and 5-0-2 in the conference while the in- Congratulations, Karolyn!! spired Wildcats lost a heart-breaker to fall to 1-7 and 1-5. Texas College Steers W, 7-0 Pilots Shut Out HTU for 7th Straight AT WC out-shot the Pilots 22-17 overall with the Pilots holding With another heavy rain passing through Shreveport, the a 9-8 edge on-goal as LSUS goal-keeper Karolyn Hasler Jarvis Christian Bulldogs W, 6-0 LSUS women’s game was again moved to the turf field at AT (SO/Chandler, AZ) rose to the task with eight saves to pre- Bossier High School on October 25. The ladies seem to like serve her 6th shut-out on the season. Bearkats’ Field as they rolled to their seventh consecutive Texas A&M-Texarkana Eagles W, 3-0 win, this one by a 2-0 score over Huston-Tillotson Universi- “It was a rough 90 minutes for us,” commented Coach ty. The victory improved the Pilots’ overall record to 10-4- Ashley Holland. “We squeezed out the win at the end.” 2 and their RRAC slate to 8-0-2 while HTU dropped to 6-7 Wiley College Wildcats W, 1-0 and 5-5. Pilots Roll Up Football- All of the scoring took place in the first period as Kati-Jayde Paul Quinn Tigers W, 13-0 Cunningham (SR/Stonewall), assisted by Natalie Blanco Like Score on Paul Quinn (SR/Guernsey, England), knocked one home at the 26:01 With nine different Pilots scoring at least one goal, the mark, followed by an unassisted goal from freshman Caroli- Southwest Mustangs W, 2-1 LSUS women won a laugher over Paul Quinn College in na Martins-Gomes (Governador Valdares, Brazil) in the RRAC action on October 18 as they scored seven times in forty-third minute. the first half and six more in the second for a 13-0 win “at Huston-Tillotson Rams W, 2-0 home” on the Bossier High School turf field. The women The 2-0 halftime lead held up as goalie Karolyn Hasler (SO/ improved to 8-4-2 on the season and 6-0-2 in the conference Chandler, AZ) maintained the shut-out with seven second- while the Tigers fell to 2-11 and 0-7. half saves to go along with a pair in the opening period. Our Lady of the Lake Saints W, 2-1 The Pilots took a total of 19 shots in the contest with eight Mason Richardson (SR/Forney, TX) led the way with three on frame while HTU shot 12 times with nine on goal. NOV 8-9 goals on eight shots while Carolina Martins-Gomes (FR/ RRAC Tournament Governador Valdares, Brazil) and Brittany Scott (FR/ Shreveport) each scored twice. Martins-Gomes set a single- NOV 26-DEC 1 game LSUS program record with six assists. Contributing NAIA National Championship one goal each for the Pilots were Kati-Jayde Cunningham (SR/Stonewall), who also provided three assists; Louise Duffy (JR/South Godstone, England); Keaton Arcement (FR/New Iberia); Alizah Mendoza (SR/Dallas); Natalie Women Win Final Regular Season 21:11 marks of the first period to give the Pilots a 2-0 halftime lead. “Gui” Martins (SR/Porto Alegre, Brazil) and Match in OT, Extend Streak to Eight Hector Hernandez (SR/Hesperia, CA) provided assists to Fittingly on Senior Day, two LSUS seniors led the way in a Meza. Martins got on the board with his 12th goal of the Richland Thunderducks AUG 17 2-1 overtime victory over Our Lady of the Lake University season at 76:02 to provide the final margin while ‘Keeper AT *SCRIMMACE* 5:00 at Bearkats Field on the campus of Bossier High School on Yoran Van Houdt (SO/Mol, Belgium) pitched his second October 27. After OLLU had taken a 1-0 lead early in the straight shut-out and fourth of the year. #6 Mobile Rams L, 2-0 second period, senior Mason Richardson (Forney, TX) AT scored at the 77:12 mark with assists from Carolina Martins- The Pilots overwhelmed the Eagles with 26 shots, 14 of Gomes (FR/Governador Valdares, Brazil) and Kati-Jayde which were on-goal, while holding the visitors to just four #5 William Carey Crusaders L, 3-0 Cunningham (SR/Stonewall).